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No. 626,4I8.

BOTTLE.

(Application led Dec. 12, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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ALFRED A. FRENCH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SHERMAN W. WATTERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,418, dated June 6, 1899.

Application filed December 12, 1898. Serial No. 698,961. (No model.)

To all whom it may concer/f1.:

Be it known that I, ALFRED A. FRENCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottles or other kinds of receptacles for holding liquids; and the object of my invention is to provide a receptacle in which the liquid may be readily poured out, but which cannot be refilled after it is emptied.

My inventign is illustrated in the accompanyin g drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view of a bottle or other receptacle. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the upper part of Fig. 1 on the line C A of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of the valve D shown in Fig. 1. Fig. Il is a side view of the valve-seat F shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the valve D on the line X X of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the valveseat F on the line Y Y of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the inner part of the neck of the bottle on the line Z Z of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a view of the wire used when the bottle is being filled, as hereinafter described.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In Fig. 1 is shown a bottle or other recep* tacle for holding liquids.` The receptacle is provided with a body portion I. Fitting into an opening in the top of I is a valve-seat F, so constructed as to close up the top of the body I and at the same time to form a valveseat. The valve-seat F is provided With an opening J into the body I of the bottle. The opening J widens out inthe upper part of the valve-seat and receives a ball N. The ball N so closely fits the opening J that when in engagement with the opening no liquid can pass through the opening from above. Resting on the top of the valve-seat F is a valve D, which is hollowed out, as shown in Fig. 1, thus providing a space for the ball N. At the point of engagement of the valve D with the valve-seat F the opening in the valveseat is made wider than the space inthe valve D, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned.

The bottle is provided with a neck K, which is constructed separate from the body I and is attached to the body by means of a lap of the'body I over the ridge R in the neck K or in any other suitable manner. The neck K is provided with the part or guide B, which engages and holds in place and guides the movable valve D. The part B is provided with suitable openings L L (shown in Fig. 7) to admit the passage of liquids through the neck of the bottle and is also provided With the opening-M, for the purpose hereinafter explained. If desired, the valve-seatF may be made integral with the body Iinstead of being constructed separately and attached to the body I. After the body I has been provided with a suitable valve-seat the neck is attached to the body. Before attaching the neck to the body of the bottle there is placed in the neck the valve D and the ball N, the ball and valve being held up by the wire II, as shown in Fig. 2. The wire I-I is preferably made in two parts, looped at O, as shown in Fig. 8, the purpose of the loop being to hold the ball N.

Vhen the parts are arranged and attached together as shown in Fig. 2, the valve and ball being raised the bottle can be readily filled. The liquid passes through the openings L L in the neck and through the opening in the valve-seat F into the body of the bottle. After the bottle is filled the Wire II is drawn out and the ball and valve drop and close the entrance to the body of the bottle.

When it is desired to empty the bottle, the same is inverted and the ball and valve drop back and the liquid finds its exit through the saine channel in which it entered. When, however, the bottle is emptied, it cannot he again lled.

If the bottle is held with neck upward, the valve D and ball N close the entrance to the body of the bottle. If the bottle is inverted and an attempt is made to force the liquid upward through the neck of the bottle, the force of the liquid will be directed through the opening M in the part B of the neck, and the valve D will be forced upward into engagement with the valve-seat F, thus preventing the flow of liquid into the body of the bottle.

If the bottle should be held in a horizontal IOO position and the valve should be withdrawn from engagement with the seat, it would still incline toward the entrance into the bottle, and if any liquid should Iind its way. between the valve and seat while the ball N is in this position the ball would be immediately driven into the opening in the valve-seat, thus preventing the entrance of the liquid into the bottle. o

The bottle thnsconstructed may be used to great advantage as a receptacle for liquids which it is desired to preserve free from possibility of adulteration.

In the past dealers in various kinds of liq- 2 nidsof more than ordinary value have fref quently adulterated the same by withdrawing the liquid or part of the same from the bottle or'receptacie in which they receive the liquid l and introducing into the receptacle an inferior substitute. in the. receptacle herein described, it is impossible to adulterate the same.

Wherea liquid is furnished The liquid i having an opening into the bottle, a valve adapted to engage the valve-seat and being on its under side hollowed out to receive a ball and theopening in the valve-seat at the point of engagement with the valve being wider than the opening in the valve, a ball interposed between the valve and valve-seat and being adapted to engage the opening in the valve-seat, a neck provided with a guide to hold the valve', the guide being provided with suitable openings for the discharge of the contents of the bottle, substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

2. In a bottle, in combination, a valve-seat having an opening into the bottle, a valve adapted to engage the valve-seat andhaving on its under side a space to` receive a ball, and the opening in the valve-seat at the point of engagement with the valve being wider than the opening in the valve, a ball interposed between the valve and valve-seat and being adapted to engage the opening in the vvalve-seat, a neck provided with a guide to hold the valve, the guide having the opening M and also suitable openings fort-he discharge yof the contents of the bottle, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described'.

-ALFRED A. FRENCH. l/Vitnesses: K S. W. WATTERSON, WILSON C. STERLING. 

